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unspared en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + spared.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not spared.
    • Cornelia knew later, when she was older and had thought more, that the queen had instantly caught the defiant mood of her guest, and thereupon left nothing unspared to conciliate it. 1900, William Stearns Davis, A Friend of Caesar:
    • It is only here and there, by Duerer, Holbein, Carpaccio, or other such men, that we get a living bird rightly drawn;[18] but we may be greatly thankful for the unspared labor, and attentive skill, with which many illustrations of ornithology have been produced within the last seventy or eighty years. 1897, John Ruskin, Love's Meinie: